Obviously, your tone is going to matter a lot here: you can make the delivery as heavy or light as the situation warrants.

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The total fund gives us the flexibility to go heavy on equities, or light.

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The dotcom bubble of the late 1990s featured companies that were heavy on ideas but light on revenues or profits.

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Flavour is a mixture of sensory information - taste, smell and the tactile sensation that is known as "mouthfeel" (so you might experience water as feeling "light" or "heavy" in the mouth).

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There is, however, scope for new laws of gravity that affect light and heavy objects differently, or involve a modification of the concept of inertia.

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Phone options for the blind previously been pricey hardware based solutions -- or feature-light (physically-heavy) handsets.

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Secondly, if you make life difficult for yourself - perhaps by shooting into the light or in very difficult conditions such as heavy rain, driving snow or stormy seas - there will be less chance of you overlapping with other photographers' work and your images stand a chance of being far more striking.

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Further, heavy crude oils do not produce as much gasoline or fuel oil as light crude oil.

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